“There’s a river of birds in migration, a nation of women with wings.”—Goddess chant, Libana
On the Goddess Pilgrimage to Crete, I explain that many of the names given to “Minoan” (c. 3000-1450 BCE) Cretan artifacts and architecture are products of patriarchal and Eurocentric imaginations, and as such, are misleading. For example the name “Minoan” was given to the culture of Bronze Age Crete in honor of “King Minos,” who was said to have ruled in Crete a few generations before the Trojan War–several hundred years after the end of the culture to which his name was attached. In fact, despite his eagerness to find evidence that King Minos ruled at Knossos, the excavator Sir Arthur Evans finally had to concede that the best he could do was to produce a fresco of a “Prince of the Lilies” which he identifed as the image of the male ruler of the culture he…
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I think one of the women in my Full Moon Circle went to this. She taught us this chant last Full Moon, and said she got it when she was in Greece.
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Libana does it and it is a well known chant.
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Yeah, who knows. I didn’t ask, but Carol P. Christ used to teach at my school, the Circle was nearby, and the woman in question goes to the local UU here. None of this evidence is conclusive, though. She taught it to us and said “I learned this while I was in Greece.” There were also some jokes about the word “Cretan” over the course of the evening. But, who knows?
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